An academic journal in statistics and machine learning promoting reproducibility and alternative publication mode
February 23, 2024
Editorial board
IT support
Stat. learning, DR INRAE
Paris-Saclay University
Statistique, DR CNRS
IMT Toulouse
Optim./Machine-Learning
CR INRIA Lyon
CS/Stats/ML, IR CNRS
IMAG, Montpellier University
Machine learning, CR CNRS
Grenoble Alpes University
Statistics, MCF
Institut Agro Rennes-Angers
Machine Learning
CR MinesParisTech
Stats/ML/dev, IR CNRS
LBMC, ENS LYON
French statistical society appoints a “publication” commitee (lead by Julien then Pierre) to develop a new journal
Assessment
😔 Multiplication of “traditional” journals…
😔 No valorization of “negative” results
😥 No or not enough valorization of source codes and case studies
😱 ↘ of publication quality and time dedicated to each article (on author or reviewer sides) [1]
😱 Issue with scientific reproducibility (analyses, experiments) [2–7]
Point of view
⇝ Emergence of “Computo” idea
Scientific perimeter
Promote contribution in statistics and machine learning that provide insight into which models or methods are more appropriate to address a specific scientific question
Open access
⇝ In accordance with Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and Plan S
Reproducible
Official launch at the end of 2021
Notebook and literate programming
text (markdown) + math (\(\LaTeX\)) + code (Python/R/Julia), references (bib\(\TeX\))
Environment management, Compilation, Multi-format publication (pdf, html)
Continuous integration/Continuous deployment (CI/CD)
markdownRmarkdownPandocCredit: Pratik89Roy CC-BY-SA-4.0 from Wikimedia
with template notebook document + doc + pre-configured compilation and publication setup
Let’s go, locally (same spirit as Jupyter/Rmarkdown notebooks)
Configuration file versionned and used during CI compilation/publication action
A git push command will trigger your article compilation (including computations) and publication as a github page1
See the preconfigured .github/workflows/build.yml file for the github action configuration2
If the CI process succeeds, both HTML and PDF versions are published on the github-page associated to the repository
https://openreview.net/group?id=Computo
Submit:
After a “traditionnal” review process, a 3 step procedure:
including
🥲 Fully operational + doi, ISSN
🙂 7 published articles articles, 3 in preproduction, 6 under review (more details here)
🙂 x presentations (Montpellier, Toronto, Humastica, Grenoble, RR2023, etc.)
🙂 French reproducible research network
🤯 Difficult to find reviewers
🤔 Institutional support?
🤔 Changing of practices in the scientific community?
quarto: dynamic, agnostic language, FOSS1, community-based (pandoc), Rstudio/Posit supportgithub: dynamic, large user community but not institutional and limited computing resources